Media Offenders

Malpractice

  • OUTLET

    REPORTER

    CLAIM

    Stabbing video fuels MAGA’s crime message

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    THE OFFENSE

    Axios’ Marc Caputo denigrated the murder of Iryna Zarutska by claiming conservatives were using the issue for political capital.

    THE TRUTH

    Zarutska’s murderer, Decarlos Brown, Jr., was a repeat felon and career criminal who had recently been released from jail in accordance with “no cash bail” policies in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.Marc Caputo claimed that those who would promulgate footage of this horrific event serve as, “a visual counterpoint to statistics showing crime decreases.” Ask yourself, why would Axios, who according to their mission statement claim to be, “turning our full focus to a deeper crisis faced by Americans: the erosion of truth, trust, safety and sanity in the news,” be devoting their labor toward a biased narrative that erodes truth, trust, safety and sanity in the news. There is nothing trustworthy about the way that Axios covered this story. There is nothing safe about discouraging citizens from advocating on behalf of Iryna Zarutska, and there is nothing sane about choosing to push back against those holding murderous animals accountable for their crimes. This tragic incident is deserving of America’s attention. Axios and Marc Caputo chose to publish an article that treated citizens calling for law and order in their country with disdain rather than report the news in an honest and unbiased manner.

    KEY POINTS

    • Axios disparaged those seeking to hold Iryna Zarutska’s murderer accountable.

    SOURCES

    • Stabbing video fuels MAGA's crime message
    • Mecklenburg County has a new bail policy. But does it go too far — or not far enough?

  • OUTLET

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    Black mayors and leaders decry Trump’s threats to deploy National Guard in cities

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    THE OFFENSE

    NBC News released a one-sided article disparaging President Trump’s enhanced law enforcement operations in Washington, D.C.

    THE TRUTH

    The “immigration advocates” cited in the article are far-left partisan sources who claimed that President Trump’s law enforcement efforts were a “federal coup.” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Al Sharpton, Marc Morial, and Derrick Johnson were among the partisans quoted in the article. Bunn’s writing included only two republican voices of dissent, one of which was buried in the bottom of the article.

    KEY POINTS

    • NBC News’ Curtis Bunn published a one-sided article that overrepresented biased left-wing voices in an effort to undermine President Trump’s law enforcement operations in the nation’s capital.

    SOURCES

    • Black mayors and leaders decry Trump’s threats to deploy National Guard in cities
    • Brandon Johnson Biography
    • Al Sharpton Speaks at 2024 DNC
    • Marc Morial's Biography
    • Derrick Johnson's Biography

  • OUTLET

    REPORTER

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    Trump Administration Draft Order Calls for Drastic Overhaul of State Department

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    THE OFFENSE

    New York Times reporter Edward Wong sent a request for comment at 2:28am on Easter Sunday and published his story regarding an unreliably sourced draft executive order (without receiving comment) roughly an hour later at 3:30am.

    THE TRUTH

    The draft executive order had, in NYT’s own words, “…no indications that Mr. Rubio or his top aides have signed off on the document.” In the same article Edward Wong also wrote, “It was not immediately clear who had compiled the document or what stage of internal debates over a restructuring of the State Department it reflected.” Despite being unable to confirm the origin of the alleged draft executive order, or even its legitimacy as an official State Department document, the New York Times published the article without comment from the White House Press Office.

    KEY POINTS

    • The New York Times posted an unsubstantiated and irresponsibly sourced draft executive order without confirming its legitimacy, or giving the White House proper time to respond to the inquiry.

    SOURCES

    • The New York Times posted an unsubstantiated an irresponsibly sourced draft executive order without confirming its legitimacy, or giving the White House proper time to respond to the inquiry.
    • Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly's Statement

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    More than 30 killed by gunfire near U.S. aid site in Gaza

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    THE OFFENSE

    The Washington Post published an article asserting that Israeli troops had killed more than 30 people near a U.S. aid site in Gaza.

    THE TRUTH

    The so-called “health officials” the Washington Post cited were members of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry. WaPo was ultimately forced to issue a correction.

    KEY POINTS

    • The Washington Post acted as a mouth piece for a jihadist terror organization.

    SOURCES

    • More than 30 killed by gunfire near U.S. aid site in Gaza
    • Press Secretary Leavitt's Response to the Washington Post's Retraction